LCO String Quartet

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Coinciding with the Shakespeare 400 anniversary celebration, LCO String Quartet performs a specially commissioned arrangement of Mendelssohn’s original music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Paul Max Edlin. Global Shakespeare performers will enact a variety of roles from the Bard’s seminal work, including Oberon, Puck and Fairy.

Preceded by an introduction from Shakespeare specialist David Shalkwyk.

A programme of John Adams' minimalist masterpiece Shaker Loops, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Copland's Appalachian Spring, plus a new work by Paul Edlin performed by the young participants...